Of Course News of Hillary Clinton's Pneumonia Comes With a Conspiracy Theory

Hillary Clinton's opponents have been hatching bizarre conspiracy theories about her for years. Among them: She is potentially a cat murderer, she once decorated a Christmas tree with cock rings, and she is a closet lesbian, per Mother Jones. Now, the 2016 election cycle has churned up a new one: that Clinton has a body double.

The rumors began after Clinton overheated during a 9/11 remembrance event Sunday and left abruptly after being escorted into a vehicle. She was dehydrated, doctors said, and was diagnosed with pneumonia two days prior. Clinton jetted off to her daughter Chelsea's home in Manhattan, where she remerged hours later. Doctors say she is rehydrated.

As far as we know, Clinton is alive and is not a cyborg, so the evidence suggests that an otherwise healthy person just got sick. But to some Trump supporters who were already suspicious about Clinton's health, well, Clinton's quick recovery was more easily explained by a body double.

#HillarysBodyDouble started trending on Twitter as users shared a photo of Clinton happily strolling outside of her daughter Chelsea's home in Manhattan:

Conspiracy theorists believe that the woman in the photo is Teresa Barnwell, who has impersonated Clinton for 32 years. But Barnwell was in L.A. when she started getting notifications about the body double conspiracy, she told the Daily Beast. Unfortunately, Barnwell played along for a moment:

"I got some kind of notification: 'When Hillary left Chelsea's home, she looked so different. Was it a body double?'" she remembers reading. "Then my picture started appearing. I was like, 'What? What is going on?'"Bored in her dressing room, she then thought, "Should I have a little fun?"Barnwell posted a picture she took of herself in front of Chelsea Clinton's apartment back in August, along with the caption, "Maybe I was in New York today!"

She did not realize what she was getting herself into and was quickly horrified:

"OK people, calm down. I was in LA today, all day. Was just messin' with your crazy conspiracy minded little heads. Go to bed."By the time she woke up, she had to return a phone call to Inside Edition about her newfound life as a political operative of the New World Order.Now she's getting conspiracies to counteract the conspiracies from worried friends. "People are like, 'Watch out. The Clintons do away with people,'" she said. "I'm like, 'Come on.'"

Yes, "come on," indeed.

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